Star Maiden is back! Star Maiden is back! I don’t know about you… but I’ve missed her. Dark Maiden is a ton of fun, but there’s something about Star Maiden’s particular brand of crazy that I just enjoy immensely. Her return, at least for me, is quite welcome. How about you guys? Where do you fall on the Star Maiden-Dark Maiden scale?
THE MISSING SWIFTY ORIGIN
Swifty and Star Maiden’s little love story is another one of my favorite elements of the SuperFogeys saga. It’s never been hugely impactful on a story level, but without it I think Swifty would be nearly unbearable as a character, at least for me. It softens him quite a bit, while still keeping him sufficiently crusty. But there’s more about that relationship you don’t know…
To my regret, the Swifty origin story has never materialized. A year ago, I had a script written and an artist all lined up and it was go time. I even announced it! But then, things just didn’t work out and so the script for the Swifty origin sits in the proverbial drawer, waiting to be brought to life. It’s a pretty terrific story, if I may say. It covers almost the entirety of Swifty’s life and really digs into his relationship with his father and with the love of his life. Star Maiden is a big part of the story and there’s a big revelation there I’m dying for you guys to find out… if only I could find the right artist…
See you on Wednesday with 741 – Scumbag Jerry!
Frankly, I can’t get enough of this little arc. I’m just a rank sentimentalist. Perhaps eventually she’ll be able to balance out between her two opposite personalities, but then she’d be someone else altogether. Would she still love Swifty? Maybe not?
Nice stuff, Brock.
Thanks, JE! And that’s exactly the thing… we have never actually seen (excepting flashback) the real Star Maiden in the main story. Will we ever? Remains to be seen…
Should we bapthise her as Crazy Maiden now? One of the things I have really liked trough all this mess since the war is seeing all the change of loyalties that many characters have gone through. Tangerine, for instance, who is evil on Avalon, or Percy, who went against her mother because of Tom and Ms Rocket. Although crazy and evil, Star was still a hero and I would like to see how is she going to be.
On a side note, would we ever get to see Jerry and Avalon Spygal? That should be very interesting, and probably would add more fuel to the fury of the currently angry Jerry
“Crazy Maiden.” I love it. You will see Jerry and Avalon Spy Gal in the same scene in this chapter, but I’ll save you the suspense and tell you they will not be interacting directly. You’re right, that could be a pretty rich vein to tap, but it’s just not in the cards.
Welcome back! I love Star Maiden and Swifty, I don’t know what would happen if her personalities merged. It would be interesting.
I like Jerry’s new outfit. The addition of pants makes his once laughable lightning bolt actually menacing. Who knew you could do that with dress pants?
Welcome back to you, Romi!
Yeah, Marc was really pulling for something different for Jerry and I like it. Kind of a mix between his old outfit and his traveling outfit during the early One Year Later stuff.
Gosh, how many pages is Swifty’s origin? I’d like to take a crack at it because the tidbits we’ve seen – the ballad of Gordon and Rhonda, Swifty and the Prophesy… I want to have the rest told!
Drop me a line Brock!
The Swifty Origin is a full 15 square pages (changing the dimensions to match… but I can’t talk about that yet). I appreciate the offer, but not quite ready to pull the trigger! Th3rd World has been making some efforts to recruit some talent for this one because, in all honestly, it’s a hugely demanding script. Hopefully, it can happen at some point.
Ooooh, I love square pages. Can’t wait to see it.
Two sides of the same coin. Here’s hoping Swifty can balance her out.